OSLO — Young people wounded in Norway’s Utoeya massacre described in harrowing detail Monday how they were shot at and saw friends gunned down by Anders Behring Breivik in his shooting rampage last July.

“There, I saw all the dead. The water was red” with blood, 20-year-old Hussein Kazemi told an Oslo court, describing the moment when he climbed back on land after throwing himself into the icy water to escape the massacre on the island of Utoeya on July 22.

Kazemi, who came to Norway from Afghanistan in March 2009, thought he had found peace in the Scandinavian country. He had joined the ruling Labour Party’s youth wing (AUF) because he hoped maintaining a left-leaning government in power in Norway would make it easier for him to obtain asylum.

But last summer, it was the Labour Party and its youth group that were the targets of right-wing extremist Breivik’s rage, as he first bombed a government building in Oslo, killing eight, before going on a shooting spree for more than an hour at Utoeya where the AUF was hosting a summer camp.

On the small island, the confessed killer massacred another 69 people, most of them teenagers.

“For the first time in my life, I was afraid,” Kazemi told the Oslo district court on the 21st day of Breivik’s trial, describing how bullets bounced off a rock sticking out of the water behind which he had taken refuge.

Even though his jacket was laced with five or six bullet holes, the young Afghani said he had miraculously come away with only two bullets lodged in his thighs and a third in his ankle.

Before stepping down from the witness stand, he stared intently at a stony-faced Breivik, today 33, and said: “The people killed on Utoeya had hopes and dreams. I will return to Utoeya to carry out their hopes and dreams.”

Another witness, Marte Fevang Smith, sparked tears and sobs throughout the courtroom as she described how she, despite a bullet in her head, had been the only one to survive when Breivik gunned down a group of 11 people on the so-called “love trail” that partially circles Utoeya.

As everyone fell to the ground, pretending to be dead, “he came towards the place where I lay,” the now 18-year-old blond recalled.

“He started shooting at all of us, one after the other, with a couple of seconds in between the shots,” said Fevang Smith, who had held her best friend by the hand when she died and who was saved herself by a courageous girl who performed first aid on her.

“I thought to myself that 17 years, that is not a very long life,” she said, recalling how she had been sure she would die.

As the only survivor of the small group she was with, Fevang Smith said she now “must live for 10 other people.”

Also on the witness list Monday was Renate Taarnes, whose desperate emergency call from her hiding place in a bathroom as Breivik shot 13 people in the Utoeya cafe building was played for the court on the first day of the trial on April 16.

She described how she had first seen her boyfriend fall under Breivik’s bullets before she ran to hide in the bathroom, where she made the phone call.

Later, she said, a young girl died in her arms as she frantically tried to perform first aid.

Hanne Hestoe Ness, 20, who had been covered by a friend’s body and was herself shot several times inside the cafe building, recalled how she had shouted after Breivik that he was “a coward.”

Breivik has confessed to the killings but has refused to plead guilty, insisting they were “cruel but necessary” to stop the Labour Party’s “multicultural experiment” and the “Muslim invasion” of Norway and Europe.

If the court finds him sane, Breivik will face Norway’s maximum 21-year prison sentence, but that term can be extended for as long as he is considered a threat to society.

If he is found criminally insane however, he will be sent to a closed psychiatric care unit for treatment.

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